title: Masochism revisited: reflections on masochism and its childhood antecedents.
abstract: Masochism, originally described as sexual perversion by Sacher von Masoch, was elaborated by Freud to include personality pathology, and further developed by Bieber and others. The DSM-III included sexual perversion and personality pathology as separate diagnoses, but were totally eliminated from the DSM-IV. It is the author's thesis that the masochist's self-abnegating language is diagnostic--a disguised attack expressing fear, hate, and contempt of others.
authors.affiliation: William Alanson White Institute, New York, NY, USA.
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authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Shainess
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D002657:Child Development; D003379:Countertransference; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007802:Language; D008297:Male; D008398:Masochism / Q000145:classification / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology*; D008960:Models, Psychological; D009034:Mother-Child Relations; D011574:Psychoanalytic Theory; D012649:Self Concept; D012737:Sex Factors; D009626:Terminology as Topic